''Family Relations'' is a

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published by

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on behalf of the

National Council on Family Relations The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) is an American nonprofit, multidisciplinary learned society dedicated to research on all aspects of the family. Founded in 1938 as the National Conference on Family Relations, it was renamed to its ...

. It covers applied research on family studies and

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. The journal was established in 1952 as ''The Coordinator'', renamed ''The Family Life Coordinator'' in 1960, and renamed again in 1970 to ''The Family Coordinator'' before obtaining its current title in 1980.

Editors

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of the journal:

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: * EBSCO databases *

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According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 1.426.

References

External links

*{{Official website, 1=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1741-3729
National Council on Family Relations
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